Bernie Sanders Publishes Powerful Op-ed In New York Times

On Wednesday, The New York Times published an op-ed penned by Senator Bernie Sanders.

In the op-ed, Sanders addresses healthcare and why every American needs Medicare.

“This is a pivotal moment in American history. Do we, as a nation, join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee comprehensive health care to every person as a human right? Or do we maintain a system that is enormously expensive, wasteful and bureaucratic, and is designed to maximize profits for big insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, Wall Street and medical equipment suppliers?” Sanders wrote.

He continued with some stunning statistics, writing, “Even though 28 million Americans remain uninsured and even more are underinsured, we spend far more per capita on health care than any other industrialized nation. In 2015, the United States spent almost $10,000 per person for health care; the Canadians, Germans, French and British spent less than half of that, while guaranteeing health care to everyone. Further, these countries have higher life expectancy rates and lower infant mortality rates than we do.”

Sanders ended with a message to Congress.

“Now is the time for Congress to stand with the American people and take on the special interests that dominate health care in the United States. Now is the time to extend Medicare to everyone.”

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